March 24, 2008 @ 10:30 pm
· Filed under Sport
Do you have courage to pursue your dream? If you doubt your abilities, perhaps you can take inspiration from the story of an old man named Heinz Stücke, the Guinness Book of Records holder, who has traveled the globe by bicycle for 40 years. His ultimate biking tour began in 1962,he released his kick stand and set forth from his home of Hovelhof, Germany. Heinz Stucke has circled the globe ten times or more, his personal record was 300 kilometers in 12 hours while crossing the Syrian desert with a tailwind.
It is really a hard way. Along the way, he’s been shot at, robbed, arrested, and celebrated, embraced and admired in every corner of the planet. But Stucke rarely sticks around for the accolades. “No matter how bad things get,” he says, “you just have to continue up the road, where everything is different. That’s what I like most. It’s the unknown around the corner that turns my wheel.” Stucke believes that every human endeavor is irrelevant in some ways. It’s up to each individual to achieve their own objectives.
The Bikeman just keeps rolling, like a migratory bird chasing the sunshine; like a timeless wanderer seeking everlasting freedom. Wealth I ask not, all I ask, the heaven above ,and the road below…
Heinz Stücke can fulfill his dream on bicycle, why can’t we? He can create his epic Journeys, Why can’t we? The world is before us; strong and content we travel the open road. The earth, that is sufficient.
”Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road，
Healthy, free, the world before me，
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune，
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing. ”
— Walt Whitman
Song of the Open Road
Accessed: http://www.gluckman.com/Bikeman.html
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